So I think a lot of us know how crazy the bicycle industry is right now
A lot of things are sold out, especially in the BMX world all complete bikes seem to be pretty much sold out everywhere
and so let's just get into putting on these new parts that you guys saw in the thumbnail and telling you a little bit of
The story behind it and we'll start with this headset
So I was recently in the bike shop that I ride for brimstone bicycles in Canal, Fulton, Ohio
And I needed a headset and this is the only one that they had in stock at the time
pink headset spacers and cap
They look cool, but I just wasn't sure if I wanted to put on only
One pink part on my bike and you guys saw the thumbnail so, you know what's coming?
but first we need to take off my stem and when you're doing this you want to remember to
Loosen the side bolts before you loosen anything else and once again, this is gonna be another one of those
Casual videos where I'm just working on my bike. I
Did a poll on my community tab?
And you guys said that you enjoyed those types of videos more than you enjoyed live streams like me actually doing it
So that's what you're getting today
we need to disconnect the gyro, which is probably the only thing holding my
fork on at this point
So I'm gonna try not to lose my fork, which is a little difficult to do whenever you only have two hands
But this park tool stand that I have but shout out to Park Tool
Does make it easier because you don't have to worry about holding the bike or anything take off
our stem I
Guess it wasn't the only thing holding it on there
Set the bars aside
Pull out our bearing
And the only thing that I'm worried about in any of this is just making sure
that
The headset spacing is the same because my brakes are amazing right now
And if you change the headset spacing between your stem and your bearings
It's going to change the length of your brake pull and it will affect the brakes
So what I'm doing here
I should say and explain all of this when you take your headset out of the box
the bottom bearing has this crown race in it that some Forks not very many these days do need
You to put on here most of them though are built into the fork
So we can get rid of that and just drop our new bearing on there and that should be good to go
I'm gonna set the fork aside
because what we have to figure out now is
The spacing I need to find which combination of spacers is going to give me the same
spacing which it doesn't look like any combination of these pink spacers is
Hmm, not sure here. I have a very random
Spacing right now, but it's very specific at the same time
so without a doubt we can at least have one pink spacer we can definitely
swap out this top one for a pink one and that could be cool because then we have pink black and
pink here
Because unfortunately no combination of those pink ones will give me the exact spacing that I have here with this
Medium-sized black one but you know what? That's fine. I like this. We'll go with this
So then the next thing I need to explain to you guys
And I do have a video on how to install a headset, but I'm gonna say it right now
Anyways, is that when you get your top bearing out of the box it also has
This spacer in it as well and that you need to make sure that you have that in there
Otherwise your fork won't be sitting flush on the bearings and it will have play because there's a lot of wiggle room there
So I'm going to take my fork
Put it back in tube top tube
Or the headset tube put this piece on
put
Spacer peace thing into that grab our cap. Guess I'm just gonna do the cat first go
cap on there no spacers
now we can grab bars and put everything back on and that's cool because the the gyro plate is actually
Black too so it kind of just works
And then you know, what did I use the thin one? I didn't so on top of my fork
I have this super thin
spacer that goes between my
compression cap and my stem
Let's just pop this pink spacer on there like that
And we'll put that in there. There we go. Okay. Oh man, that is like
Way too close for comfort. Maybe we won't put the pink one in there
Okay good there in the story time
so I was at the bike shop for a second time after I hadn't had a chance to put those on I asked Erik the
Owner if he wanted me to put the pink one on her if he wanted me to swap it out
for one of the other black or silver captain in space their headsets that they had in there and
He wanted me to rock the pink not gonna lie
I was kind of secretly eyeing this second part in the shop while I was in there
Because just look at it. This Z is sweet
So I said well if you want me to ride pink headset Captain spacers
then we got to have something to match it and
This is what we got to match it and my current seat is
awful, it has been through the
Wringer and I've had it for I might have had the seat for almost two years at this point
Which is kind of crazy
You know what? I'm gonna bring you guys a little closer here. I'm just gonna put on the new seat
I'd say it was about time for a do one. Look at this thing. This thing is
freakin awful
But hey
Two years out of a seat is a long time for me. So it did its purpose and it did it very well
All right, so I completely don't remember the angle that I had this thing at but you know what well guess
She's kind of turning out to be you know, like a cotton candy bike pink and blue
Looks good
Okay, that was a quick one should be good there
So I grabbed the seat and I'm like, well, we could definitely put that seat on there
and then there was something else that I felt like would accent this perfectly and you saw the thumbnail so
You know what it is, but these pink ODI grips man. Look at that. I'll break those are it just kind of pops
So grab these in Eric the bike shop owner, which if you see this Eric
Thank you for all this and all of the support you honestly
Helped keep my bike dialed and my bike stays dialed with your help
he was psyched that I was gonna put all this on and I'm psyched to put it all on will take off my
15 16 year old bar ends, maybe a little less than that more like probably 15
We're gonna take the easy wrap for getting these off today
The air is this is the easiest way to do it
Something about ODI grips man when you get the long neck ones and they're brand new
They are brutal
But we got it. I know I've heard in the past
That some people like boil their grips or do certain other things to try and make them softer
Do you guys do any of that? Have you ever found that it actually works?
Because I never have I just wondered sounds like it could be a nice experiment video one day look how much
Brightness that adds that is so bright. I
am excited I guess the last step is just to make sure that our
Stem is centered. I
was just stepping off camera for a second to just check and
see if it was actually centered in the way that I normally do this because I'm normally
adjusting this while I'm actually on the bike is that I look down my bars and
Then I make my bars kind of like the parallax and what you're actually seeing with your bars
Make it perfectly straight and then I line it up with my dropouts because if your bars and your Forks are straight
That means that your dropouts should both be
Perfectly in line with what you're looking at on your bars
Whereas if it's not straight and your bars are crooked, but your Forks are straight then if you can see this
So if our bars are crooked this way and our Forks are this way
I mean that means this side of our Forks is gonna be sticking out further and you're gonna be able to see that
So I kind of just tinker with it until they're both even
Tightening up our stem bolts locks in what we've done here
with our head set cap
so
I'm gonna see if I can get that other spacer in here just because I think it'll look cool
There we go
That looks good. That's awesome
Give you guys a little bit of montage here with some shots of the grip and other pink things
You know, I'm kind of looking at this and it's all done but there's nothing back here
Alienation does make these petals in pink and I think that that would be the perfect accent
To what we're looking at here. What do you guys think? Let me know and I think with that we're done here
so if you guys enjoyed this video of me putting these things on and you enjoyed it more than the
Livestream of me doing it
Let me know in the comments down below if you're new here and you're somehow finding your way to this channel from somewhere else
Hit the subscribe button while you're down there and hopefully that will mean that we'll see you tomorrow for another video
I want to thank you guys all for being here and watching I want to thank brimstone
Bicycles and alienation and Park Tool and Ride concepts and all the other people who helped support me. Keep my bike rolling
Good keep my feet comfortable
and you know, just keep things going and
Support because that support means a lot to me and I want to thank you guys all for being here to watch the video
so, thank you and
Hopefully, we'll see you tomorrow. Good. Bye